skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s always interesting to browser Mozilla’s public suffix list to see all the weird and wonderful second level domains around the world: http://publicsuffix.org/list/
ArduinoLCD lets tinkerers add a touchscreen to their projects
Many of the universities around here (Munich) got an edu domain (tum.edu (e. g. www.cs.tum.edu), hm.edu).

Really US-restricted TLDs, as far as I know, are mil, gov and pro.
Hm. /me googles a bit. Not quite sure to be honest - I can't find any evidence of it: maybe I've got the terminology wrong or I was on another pill altogether. Will check my prescription :)
Agreed, is it possible to implement this as a hack ontop of the chrome's own dev tools? That all just implemented in html/css/js. Maybe you could override that.

Sounds super hard to me, but what you built looks super hard too :)
I'd be curious to get the opinion of others on whether or not this was a mistake given the information they had at the time.

It's pretty useless to say "our biggest mistake was x because it turned out to be a huge failure". I'm not interested in hearing someone say "my biggest mistake was eating vegetables every day because I ended up choking on a piece of broccoli".
The system targets 6 blocks per hour, not 10.
From the license text:

> Microsoft is granted back, without any restrictions or limitations, a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, assignable and sub-licensable license, to reproduce, publicly perform or display, install, use, modify, post, distribute, make and have made, sell and transfer your modifications to and/or derivative works of the Software source code or data, for any purpose.

The above I can understand. MSFT claims ownership of any modifications you make to its software. Be aware.

> [A]ny feedback about the Software provided by you to us is voluntarily given, and Microsoft shall be free to use the feedback as it sees fit without obligation or restriction of any kind, even if the feedback is designated by you as confidential.

This I don't get. Why would MSFT want to publish confidential feedback?

> That if you breach this MSR-LA or if you sue anyone over patents that you think may apply to or read on the Software or anyone's use of the Software, this MSR-LA (and your license and rights obtained herein) terminate automatically. Upon any such termination, you shall destroy all of your copies of the Software immediately. Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 of this MSR-LA shall survive any termination of this MSR-LA.

This part I certainly understand. "Sue us and you can't use our toys anymore."

> That the patent rights, if any, granted to you in this MSR-LA only apply to the Software, not to any derivative works you make.

This, again, is unsurprising, but good to keep in mind.
Regular folks do not put their life savings into currencies or commodities. They put their life savings into banks.

What planet are you from? On my planet, regular folks put their savings into 401k accounts, which invest in stocks, bonds, and sometimes commodities. If you do choose to keep your savings in a bank, you're investing in a currency (probably the US dollar.)

Instead its an trust relationship between the bank and the bank customer, like a contract.

Nope. Actually it's a trust relationship between the federal government, which insures your account up to 250,000 through FDIC, and you. You also have to trust that the federal government isn't going to inflate away your savings (spoiler alert: they are going to.)
I'm consistently somewhere between one and two Starbucks ventis per day; however, when I was in grad school (one-year lock-step masters program), my coffee consumption was significantly higher. You could find me with coffee about 90% of my waking hours. I consumed it until I was so tired it simply no longer had its stimulating effect on me...crash...start the cycle over again. I do not miss grad school.
I've been trying to buy bitcoins for a month via dwolla and mtgox, still haven't been able to make the purchase. I don't know how "regular folks" are supposed to get in.
Repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605117
Thanks both for pointing this out - I've left a comment on the blog post asking him to change "open source" to "shared source" (which is what I thought Microsoft call such visible but not open code).

I'll give Leonardo the benefit of the doubt that he's just made an error for now...
In the interest of backing up my statement and sticking to my guns:

Take the marketing and hype away from Apple, and what is it? A Foxconn rebranding outfit, a 1990s style UNIX outfit which ships proprietary hardware and a media pushing company with a less than 7% market share of the IT industry with many rising competitors. That is it.

That is no different than Sony 10 years ago. And look where they are now.

Hype cannot be maintained forever. When you can no longer outdo yourself, it's gone. This is happening rapidly. People used to wait on Apple news announcements. I mean hell even I did as they usually stepped up the game. But what have they delivered of note recently: absolutely sod all. Lumias are starting to tread on their innovation territory, Surface is less than a month away, Google has taken over the appliance model and the mobile market is dominated by South Korean giant Samsung.

They're losing the marketing battle as that's all they had and they're suing everyone on the way down.

My main problem is that people worship Jobs as some kind of idol. I think he was an extremely bad role model and a warning rather than a sign. Sure he knocked up Apple's market cap, which is his only real acheivement, but it in the process he shafted just about everyone on the way, destroyed the perception of an open computing model, lied persistently about bad products and ripped off other people's work persistently.

The guy was technically speaking in every way an utter psychopathic arrogant asshole with no remnant of humanity. But a good marketer.

I'm fed up with reading all the tripe about him.
Agreed.. I like that they often have examples to get you started quickly, but a lot is simply left out. Especially the quirks, and php has a lot of them.

I'm used to dealing with perl 5, which has quirks of it's own, but at least their documented (a little too much sometimes). I learn a lot about many things by reading the perl docs.

Here's "Gory details of parsing quoted constructs"
(no that I have read it..)

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Gory-details-of-parsing-...
You don't need the block chain to use bitcoin. Honestly, there only needs to be one complete copy in total across the entire world. It's just a quirk of the current client that it insists on such a download in an era where it takes more than a few minutes.
And if Nominet get their way there will be commercial domains such as .uni.uk, .col.uk, .acad.uk, .cam.uk, .ox.uk, etc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596154

If that happens I can imagine .edu becoming more popular as it may make .ac.uk seem more of a second class domain.
If you appeal a WIPO decision in front of some judge who doesn't know a thing about the internet and that judge rules in your favor, you have not just proven WIPO made a mistake - but that is how you are choosing to interpret his decision.

You're clearly a typo-squatter or somebody who otherwise traffics in TM domains, so I'm never going to get you to agree with me on this, and that is fine, we don't need to agree. But your personal attacks are unnecessary.
Or the poster doesn't understand what open source really is, or their definition of open source is different from yours. Honestly, GPL screws up commercial use almost as much as a non commercial use restrictions. But I totally agree that open source are not the right words to use in this situation.

Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft.
Right, if you intend to make your own implementation and profit from it, it's wise to avoid it. But for the rest of us it isn't that black and white...
Bah, just fine the car owner, it's easy enough for him to have control of his vehicle, unless he reported it as stolen.

This isn't a murder trial, it's a minor infraction, like a parking ticket.
I assume the APIs are for internal use only as Craiglist is making a habit of suing external parties who use data from them ;)
Is there a free to use and fast implementation of SHA3 in C available ?
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> Pagination is one of the worst design and usability sins on the Web, the kind of obvious...

It's not obvious. It depends on the situation. At Etsy, we experimented with infinite scroll in search and pretty much every metric we cared about got worse. But we do use it successfully in other contexts.

The thing that annoys me about this article is that it could mention A/B results in some way, but it doesn't. He's just countering some editor's opinion with his own.
In a vaguely sealed container with air being supplied through filters for a few minutes vs. standing in the fumes directly for hours.
Thanks (and @wcoenen), that's interesting.

Thinking further on the risks of bitcoin, is it possible that the algorithm itself could have a yet to be discovered weakness, allowing for a trivial solution?

(similar to what happens when some forms of crypto are broken)
Have you looked around the site? Most of the questions are not things I'd think of asking anyone. People also seem to be more inclined to answer on quora than probably a random forum or stranger's email.
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Absolutely not true. When I was working with Drupal 6, CCK and Views 2, I would use the GUI to try out new content types and views, but I would then export their definitions and put the code for them into a custom module, which was under version control.

When I first started out I actually wasn't using CCK or Views 2, I was creating new node types with a custom module, and if I were to go back to Drupal now I would be sorely tempted to do this again. Views was a bit too fragile and the queries it generated were horrific, and I think if you can code and know PHP and MySQL well they really give you very little value, or possibly even work out slower overall.
I don't think the actual rules are as strict as the article states. The article says that only post-secondary institutions can get .edu addresses, but that's simply not true: the high school I went to has a .edu address, for example.
I agree there. It's one of the things I liked about the 710 (the hardware buttons). It is also extremely cheap here in the UK now (£89!) so screw getting tied to a contract with it.
What bunkum.

Other than some exceptionally rare examples of "bit rot" where errors in manufacturing cause the chemical composition of the plastics prematurely deteriorate, a compact disc will survive at least 50 if not 100 or more years, even with the most exceptionally modest storage and handling conditions.

A scuffed CD is often perfectly playable, and can otherwise be polished back to near-perfect playability with toothpaste and/or ultra-fine sandpapers.
I'm old enough to have thought at the time of the Macarena that it was a fad.
So if I own ggoogle.com you think I should be able to keep that domain and serve ads on it and profit from all of that traffic that is trying to find Google? Google should not be able to take that domain away from me?

That's an interesting viewpoint, but not one supported by the law.
My antivirus has found Mal/HTMLGen-A virus on this page. Has anyone verified this is legitimate? The domain .xxx doesn't inspire much confidence either.
In teh UK if you have to may points on your licence you lose it and if you grossly break the sped limit you get an imediate ban.

I know some on who has his 150+ speeding summons framed - he uesed to tune Pro racing bikes and was caught testing one late at night.
Are there any digital wallets out there that are:
1) trustworthy
2) allow easy funding (credit/debit card/paypal)

Until that's the case I just don't see this taking off. I'm fairly motivated to buy a few just for kicks, but if I can't be bothered I can't see the general population doing so either.

I see MtGox takes wire transfers, which is almost good enough, but not quite. Didn't they also suffer a breach not so long ago?
Still looking on Alibaba atm, seem crazy that you can actually get 7-10" tablets for around $30, for example:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/625682187/PF_Tech_mid_with...

I if was in CW's shoes, I think it would of been much more impressive to have a huge big screen in the middle of the page rather then a tiny little one.

Of course it would use more battery and there's no 3g, but if you loaded it up with 4gb of content on a loop, would look much more impressive IMO.
I don't drink coffee at all. I think it has the placebo effect and we actually don't work harder. In my case, when I drink coffee, I get nervous and can't think straight anymore because of the energy rush
Excellent use of the .xxx domain name. If people start using .xxx for normal writing, the concept of "one place to conveniently censor" will not work out. Heh.
OK. So there is a path to converting JS to typescript without rewriting the whole thing. Thanks for the additional information.
"So according to the article, it's not restricted to the US, it's just that the US decides who gets it and who doesn't."

Well, a private company overseen by the US Chamber of Commerce gets to decide and is only taking guidance of eligibility from US agencies for international accreditation of educational facilities. What could possibly go wrong?

Now I'm not saying that this is completely destined to end up in abject comedic failure, but it is hardly ideal and I am sure that there are several international academic organisations that would be better stewards for this.
I'm curious about the intended audience for this product: people working professionally in this area are likely to have a predefined workflow that's going to be difficult to fit this into be that: it's 'just not VIM'; it being outside of version control and/or build systems; or any number of other reasons (both with objective and subjective merit).

Is the audience not these professional people? Is it aimed more at the shallower end of the learning curve?
That's a really good question, one that I spent a lot of time thinking about before I started. Basically the way that they deal with changes to the page is fundamentally not suited to persisting the changes back to text. It would take a lot of hacking :)
I often think that it would have been smarter to have dropped generic TLDs early on. As a result of various factors, it has now created an artificially constricted supply of virtual real estate that has an associated price demand pressure that is unlikely to ever ease.

My personal preference would be to see these disappear, to be replaced with more geographical focused TLDs. The .us ccTLD would have been the ideal replacement for US companies and educational establishments. .com.us and .edu.us as examples. Elsewhere in the world this is common and accepted.

For those in the US, or those who have a vested interest in the .com and .edu TLD, I imagine they would view such a suggestion with abject horror.
composer is great, I'd just like to add that the docs make the distinction that it's a dependency manager rather than a package manager.
They probably got it before 2001.
Yes, there most certainly is a type. It's dynamic, but not nonexistent. Now, of course you don't know the type for sure unless you run the code. I said so at the start. But I'm saying, can't you do a pretty good job in most cases? In this case, you could go to all places where do_something is called and see what objects are being passed in.

Yes, maybe there are situations where dozens of different types are passed in by different calls, or where we're building a library and we don't have any calls to do_something in our codebase, and cases where everything is obfuscated by one means or another. But depending on style I bet there are lots of cases where it works out ok.
IPAD-like tablet described by wolfram et al in 2000
for 1. you can definitely modify an SVM to be used for regression, as far as I know most standard SVM libraries have support for regression, and I have personally used them very successfully for this task. [0]

2. There are actually ways you can modify the output of an SVM to give a probabilistic interpretation[1]. But I'll agree with the not having a 'natural' probabilistic interpretation.

3. Is definitely correct, but I'm not sure NNs are that much better.

[0] http://www.svms.org/regression/

[1] http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~mozer/Teaching/syllabi/6622/pape...
Who knows, maybe I'm alone in thinking it's aesthetically out of place.

However Google and Apple think simple, clean URL's are important too.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

PS: The irony of this link's structure, and the first paragraph, are not lost on me either ;)
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I do agree, the .xxx domain is not an excellent choice, but at the end it doesn't really bother me.
The original bitcoin paper described a "Simplified Payment Verification" which doesn't require the full blockchain. This is used by Bitcoin Wallet for android.

Another alternative is to work with a trusted server. This is used by Bitcoin Spinner for Android.
I used MtGox a month ago to see what all the bitcoin fuss was about and their UK bank was inexplicably closed during that time. They've been contacting me with updates via email but the money I wired to them still hasn't been credited to my MtGox account which is really frustrating.
Open Source a term with a single, specific definition.

It is damaging to the ideas of FLOSS to allow stuff like "shared source" to be called open source.

EDIT: Removed reference to "open source" being trademarked, it is in fact not, apologies for the confusion.
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thx for the insight @bennysaurus. That's what I dislike about rumours, especially with so little info and in areas I lack understanding.
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https://www.bitinstant.com is trustworthy and by far has the most funding options, which are the most convenient. Eg. in the US you can deposit cash in a CVS, 7-11, Walmart, and have it credited to your wallet almost instantly.
Angus Croll's own website points to it.
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I don't think that is true, what will happen is people browsing hackernews from work (in not particularly liberal work places) will not be able to read posts. Even if people choose to (incorrectly) use the .xxx extension I don't think it's going to push people to stop assuming .xxx is pornographic.

edit: assuming you're not being sarcastic, can't tell.
That was good. Also, "Deep C Secrets": http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...
what is the practical uses of this (or SMT in general)? i've read the referenced Wikipedia but still don't understand.
I'm surprised it took so long, actually. What did she expect? Suing her employer makes her a massive liability to the firm. The only thing keeping her there was how a firing would reflect on the case and in the press. KPCB must've decided that the bad press was the better alternative (and rightly so, IMHO).
You're being sarcastic, but you're also correct.

While the strength of a product may dictate its long-term success, a well-implemented marketing campaign is often the difference between a mediocre product with excellent sales and an excellent product with mediocre sales.
I was thinking the same (but my understanding of all of this is still very weak).

Isn't it a major assumption that these "extremely difficult mathematical problems" remain extremely difficult until all Bitcoins have been mined, 120-130 years in the future?
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No, the standard hasn't been published yet.

Yes, see here for Keccak implementations http://keccak.noekeon.org/files.html
Pagination is an issue only when it comes to touch devices..
Have you bothered to contact them yourself?
Dutch people and government are obsessed with (limiting) speed, instead of focussing on keeping distance.
A nice effect of distance is less braking, which means less energy converted into useless heat and less ghost traffic jams.

It always amuses me to hear local radio news about yet another multi-vehicle collision.

In Germany, the country known for it's wonderful Autobahn, you can temporarily loose your license for tailgating.

PS: I'm dutch.
> Where is this elite Drupal employment world that the OA speaks of?

Drupal is fairly big here in Scandinavia, and it's my distinct impression that it's the same story all over Europe. It has a strong footing within online media that seems to grow every day.

I suspect that if I moved to another country, or even abroad, I wouldn't have much difficulty finding a different (high paying) job related to Drupal.

Also, if you're US based and like great community oriented dev houses: www.acquia.com, www.lullabot.com or www.palantir.net.
Your position is absurd and contradictory.

The hype and popularity exists because Apple has produced very compelling products. The iPod and the iPhone were both leaps and bounds ahead of the competition at their launch. It's also clear that Jobs was the driving force behind their vision.

You say that "even [you]" waited on Apple announcements because "they usually stepped up the game" which translates into the fact that Apple made better/interesting/more innovative products. Note you didn't say "even I waited on Apple news announcements because their marketing was so amazing."

You say that Lumias are treading on their "innovation" territory. Not their marketing territory, their innovation territory.

If it was all marketing, they would still be winning by your argument. Has their marketing dramatically changed in the past few years?

The only rational way to reconcile this is by you saying "oh, by marketing, I mean the whole product package, user interface, software, and hardware design". In which case, you just are simply defining marketing wrong.
That's something we're still trying to work out ourselves. As for professionals, the aim is to replicate a certain existing workflow, but move it to the web. That workflow is design file > HTML template > ??? (cms template, etc.)

A lot of people just use a text editor, their browser and firebug, so we want to serve those people but with a much faster and streamlined experience.
I completely disagree with your views about Drupal development. We've recently migrated bmj.com (a big site with gets 1.6 million visitors and 6.8 million page views a month) from old Java Servlet based platform to Drupal. We've used continuous development process where up to 4 developers were working on the same code base in dev, staging/testing and prod environments. It is now a standard Drupal development practice to export all configuration data to the source code. BMJ.com is not a simple site, it has an article page with quite complex data structure with up to 60 meta data elements (author details, publication date, vol/issue number, section, series, category, taxonomy, relations to other articles, open access flag, etc...) being rendered at the relevant blocks. The business and editorial departments have been happy with the new opportunities Drupal is offering them. For more detail, please access Drupal success case study: http://drupal.org/node/1557636
I'm not sure how you can simultaneously say: "I mean hell even I did as they usually stepped up the game" and also "They're losing the marketing battle as that's all they had".

If they "stepped up the game" then surely there is (or was) something more happening than simply "hype"?

Who knows what will happen next - maybe others have or soon will catch up and Apple will crash and burn. We'll see. Still, to dismiss a pretty remarkable run over the last decade as "just marketing" is really to miss a lot, not to mention implicitly reducing everyone else in the industry to idiots who for some bizarre reason couldn't hire a good ad agency.